The Twenty-Four Hour Mind: The Role of Sleep and Dreaming in Our Emotional Lives

by Rosalind D. Cartwright

Book Overview

Leading sleep researcher Rosalind Cartwright brings together decades of work on sleep, dreaming and sleep disorders to propose a new theory of how the mind works continuously. Drawing on her own research and that of others, Cartwright describes how conscious and unconscious thoughts and feelings move forward--from waking, into sleep and dreaming, to the next waking day. One main purpose of sleep is to regulate disturbing emotions .Not everyone does...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199896283
• ISBN13: 9780199896288
• Release Date: August 2012
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.1"